Himachal Pradesh Election Results 2022 Live Updates: The Congress party is holding out hope that it can secure its ‘magic number,’ but it will not do so until the final results of the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections are made public. The Congress outperformed the BJP by crossing the halfway mark and is leading on 40 of the 68 seats in the Himachal Pradesh assembly, while the latter was leading on 21 and won four seats. Till 2pm, the Congress won two seats. Celebrations by the Congressmen began in the state capital by distributing sweets.In three BJP-rebel stronghold constituencies, the independents were in the lead. Jai Ram Thakur, the 57-year-old chief minister, triumphed in the Mandi district’s Seraj, his stronghold. Mukesh Agnihotri, 60, and Sukhvinder Sukhu, 58, were leading the Congress from the seats of Haroli and Nadaun, respectively.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which was running in the assembly elections for the first time, had been absent from the state well before the election as its leaders concentrated on growing its support base in Gujarat.It had candidates running for 67 seats, but it has not yet opened its account. Rakesh Jamwal of the BJP defeated his closest Congress challenger by an 8,125-vote margin to keep his Sundernagar seat in the Mandi district.Stay with TOI for all live updates on HP election result 2022.